TTS First Message Delay Before Speaking

[jasonmerc]

Describe the bug
In my Kodular built app, it seems that the first text to speech message that is spoken by the app is extremely delayed. In my specific instance, TTS is called as soon as another screen in the app is initialized. It is supposed to speak right away. Since there happens to be a timer on this screen in question, I can say with accuracy that it takes the TTS anywhere from 4-6 seconds before it says what it's supposed to.

All subsequent TTS messages in the app are spoken when they are supposed to without any noticeable delay. It is only the first message where this lag/delay is present.

This was tested and confirmed to happen on multiple modern Android phones all running either Android 9, or 10.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Make an app with multiple screens, each having their own TTS module that is called on screen initialize
2. The first TTS should be delayed by a few seconds, but the next TTS should speak pretty much right when it's supposed to
3. If these steps are unable to reproduce the issue, I will supply an exported .aia project where this is confirmed to be happening

Expected behavior
The TTS message should be spoken when it's supposed to, without a 5-ish second delay before the message is spoken

Screenshots
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Desktop (please complete the following information):

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Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: Moto X4, Google Pixel 4
• OS: Android 9, 10
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Additional context
As stated above, if a bug fixer is not able to duplicate the issue themselves, please let me know and I will provide an exported AIA of my project where the issue is happening